[gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet

[Paul Ward]

We were supplied with additional 10Gbps cards in our ESS.
We didn’t realise there were two identical 10gbps cards in the chassis which lead to some confusion…
I finally twigged and realised the cables were plugged into one, and the configuration was applied to the other 😊
Sorry network team it wasn’t a problem with the network!

Kindest regards,
Paul

Paul Ward
TS Infrastructure Architect
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From: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Beattie
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Prasad,

You would be better off looking at the following:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/networking/ethernet/cable-accessories/

This will allow you to adapt from the QSFP+ 100GB transceiver down to a SFP+ 10GB transceiver and then use standard OM4 cable and Cisco 10GB transceivers at the other end.

However I will also comment that using 10GB network for an all flash ESS is a bit like buying an F1 racing car and never taking it out of first gear.

You would honestly be better investing in a single 100GB switch to at least build the ESS cluster at 100Gbit and getting the full potential bandwidth from your investment in NVMe

Otherwise buy a FS5200 + 2 x86 servers and some scale licensing, because you are down rating the ESS3200 to less than 25% of its potential performance


Regards,

Andrew Beattie
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IBM Australia and New Zealand
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet

Does anyone know if we can connect IBM ESS 3200 to a customer 10 Gb ethernet network? If so what cables we need to connect it to a Cisco C93180YC-EX switch? Does it support 100 Gb to 4x10 GB fanout connections? Prasad Surampudi | Sr. Systems
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Does anyone know if we can connect IBM ESS 3200 to a customer 10 Gb ethernet network? If so what cables  we need to connect it to a Cisco C93180YC-EX switch? Does it support 100 Gb to 4x10 GB fanout connections?

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